Loading ...I visited the Pepsi Center twice this past weekend for NHL games — Avs vs. Wild and Avs vs. Predators. I have to say, I was sorry find that the Avalanche have discontinued their use of the Avalanche warning siren as part of their goal celebration. Now it’s kind of a run-of-the-mill affair. That siren, coupled with Blur’s Song 2 was distinctive and cool. Let’s listen, shall we?
You’ve got to admit that siren makes it pretty cool. Now let’s listen to an Avs goal celebration from 2008. It’s missing a bit of panache and could be the goal celebration just about anywhere. Hell, it could be the music they play when the Nuggets win. Very nondescript. On top of that, they are using Gary Glitter’s Rock and Roll, Pt. 2. I have a big problem with that. Gary Glitter is a convicted child molester. I’m sorry, but his music should not be used in NHL arenas or any arenas — particularly any place that children frequent. That’s just a slap in the face to his young victims. No royalties for convicted felons, thank-you-very-much!
Everything old is new again, let’s bring back the siren and ditch the music of the dispicable child abuser Gary Glitter.
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Thanks for good post. Couldn’t agree more on the Gary Glitter thing.
you couldn’t be more wrong about this. for the past oh, i dont know, FIVE seasons or so the avs has been using the gary glitter’s song… the siren along with blur’s song were used a few times last season and have sense changed the goal song back to normal. i don’t think you should comment on the avs goal songs having been to the pepsi center twice. leave that to those of us with season tickets — that we’ve had since the avs came to denver over ten years ago.
You’ve only begun to hit on my disgust with the teams lack of innovation. I too have season tickets but I have to agree. We hear the same songs and see the same skits and halftime entertainment game after game after game. Kindof makes it hard to get psyched up to see a losing team if everything else is blase.
NG: How am I wrong? You concurred that the Avs have long used the Gary Glitter song. And Glitter is a convicted child molester. Here’s a fact: The Avs are paying royalties to a child molester from the public playing of his song — I don’t like it. I don’t think I have to be a season ticket holder to have an opinion about that.
For the record, my fellow goddess, Sasha, who runs this blog with me, is a long-time Avalanche season ticket holder.